Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social HymenopteraAppleton, 1913 - 448 pages |
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... once the right way is known it is easy to induce them to go in . When I wished to start a new nest I dug one up , and brought home the ants , earth , & c . , all together . I then put them over one of my artificial nests , on one of the ...
... once the right way is known it is easy to induce them to go in . When I wished to start a new nest I dug one up , and brought home the ants , earth , & c . , all together . I then put them over one of my artificial nests , on one of the ...
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... once highly - developed organs ; why , then , should he adopt the opposite view with reference to the rudimentary sting ? On the whole , I must regard the ancestral ant as having pos- sessed a sting , and consider that the rudimentary ...
... once highly - developed organs ; why , then , should he adopt the opposite view with reference to the rudimentary sting ? On the whole , I must regard the ancestral ant as having pos- sessed a sting , and consider that the rudimentary ...
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... When fighting with larger species they spring on to their backs , and then seize them by the neck or by an antenna They also have the instinct of acting together , three or four seizing an enemy at once , and then MODES OF FIGHTING . 17.
... When fighting with larger species they spring on to their backs , and then seize them by the neck or by an antenna They also have the instinct of acting together , three or four seizing an enemy at once , and then MODES OF FIGHTING . 17.
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... once , one by each of her legs or antenn¿ , and when they have once taken hold they will suffer themselves to be cut in pieces rather than leave go . Polyergus rufescens , the celebrated slave - making or Amazon ant , has a mode of ...
... once , one by each of her legs or antenn¿ , and when they have once taken hold they will suffer themselves to be cut in pieces rather than leave go . Polyergus rufescens , the celebrated slave - making or Amazon ant , has a mode of ...
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... once watched an ant from six in the morning , and she worked without intermission till a quarter to ten at night . I had put ber to a saucer containing larv¿ , and in this time she carried off no less than a hundred and eighty ...
... once watched an ant from six in the morning , and she worked without intermission till a quarter to ten at night . I had put ber to a saucer containing larv¿ , and in this time she carried off no less than a hundred and eighty ...
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Page 79 - On the 17th of June, 1804, whilst walking in the environs of Geneva, between four and five in the evening, I observed close at my feet, traversing the road, a legion of rufescent ants. They moved in a body with considerable rapidity, and occupied a space of from eight to ten inches in length by three or four in breadth. In a few minutes they quitted the road, passed a thick hedge, and entered a pasture ground where I followed them.